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outwind

/aʊtˈwaɪnd/

outwind verb: to extricate by winding; to unloose.

Verb (1)

outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwound)

  1. (transitive) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
    • they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Dear Psittacuse! when shalt thou once outwind / Thy self from this sad yoke?1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The...

Verb (2)

outwind (third-person singular simple present outwinds, present participle outwinding, simple past and past participle outwinded)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in wind or breath.
    • The urchin had an elasticity of muscle, a capacity of stretch and endurance in his sinews, and a share of positive strength in his excessive breadth of shoulders, which made him little inferior in conflict to most ordinary men, and in speed he could have outwinded the best.1840, William Gilmore Simms, Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi

Forms of outwind

third-person singular presentoutwinds
present participleoutwinding
past participleoutwound
pastoutwound
past participleoutwinded
pastoutwinded

Origin of outwind

From out- + wind.

Questions about outwind

What does outwind mean?
Outwind means to extricate by winding; to unloose.
What part of speech is outwind?
Outwind is a verb.
How do you pronounce outwind?
Outwind is pronounced /aʊtˈwaɪnd/.
What is the past tense of outwind?
The past tense of outwind is outwound.

Words near outwind in the dictionary

  1. outwill
  2. outwilled
  3. outwilling
  4. outwills
  5. outwin
  6. outwind
  7. outwinded
  8. outwinding
  9. outwinds
  10. outwing
  11. outwinged

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